Nearly Office Pup is a puplet with office apps removed and using the XFCE desktop. The idea is that the puplet is run from frugal install or USB stick and an appropriate SFS file of your favourite office apps is used. Usually this would be OpenOffice, but could be Goffice (Abiword & Gnumeric) or even Koffice.

For Goffice (Abiword & Gnumeric) try the goffice-43.sfs file at the above site.

Magnificent! Thanks, gray, good to know that you're still in business and offering choices (eg Xfce, Thunar, Opera) that most prefer! And your derivatives are the only ones that shut down properly on all my kit.

Running frugal, all drive and partition icons appear correctly on the desktop when there is no pupsave file (or pfix=ram). But whenever there is a pupsave file then the appearance of drive icons is inconsistent. Even the home drive icon does not appear. With varying results, I can get the remaining icons to appear by manually toggling them with Pmount and/or running the included Partview. No such problems with 431 final (JWM/Rox), and even your Boxpup 413 (Openbox/Thunar) finds the drives every time. So it must be something peculiar in the Xfce handling. (I am going to write a script to restart X with a single click.)

It would be nice if the flash and grafix blocker buttons were already in Opera.

I gotta have Ayttm for Google jabber. I would vote to have Ayttm included and then leave PSIP or SKYPE as an add-on pet.

I seem to be leaning toward your Boxpup (with both Firepup and Opera10) as my workhorse because of my experience to date.

No question about it. Puppy with your Thunar file manager configuration is the one I would introduce to "immigrants".

JMX,
I hoped this would not be needed (and indeed NOP is OK on any machine I tested) but on slow machines I think Xfce sometimes needs a poke. Try adding the following lines to the .xinitrc file just before the #v2.11 GuestToo line near the bottom.

Thanks for your response, gray.
Answer: "no" ! I'm not doing much with PCs at present due to other major projects. And was never a SW person which is why I appreciate your polished offerings so highly.

Nice work, Gray. Just one question .... how can I restart x-server? You don't have an option in the menus. I like a resolution of 1024x768 but at this resolution it always boots with the display moved to the right. The workaround for me in Barry's 4.31 is to restart x-server immediately after boot and this moves the display to where it ought to be....... hence my question._________________Classic Opera 12.16 browser SFS package for Precise, Slacko, Racy, Wary, Lucid, Quirky, etc available here

I would really like to give NOP 4.3.1 a try. The posts above indicate that some people have been able to download it successfully, but currently, that site requires login. Is there any other place where the iso is available?